A Puritan at Heart

It has been my habit to post no more than one short quote per day, (some times less) at this blog. But at weekends or national holidays I may post two on those days at times.  It will not only even out the days my health doesn’t allow me to post anything of this nature, it will also get more on the blog if given the state of my health I head Homewards, sooner than I expect.  So, I hope this won’t inconvience regular readers. If any of you object to perhaps having 9 posts some weeks rather than the standard 7 then please feel free to contact me via the contact link on this blog.

The same will be true of Reformers Corner too, for the same reasons.

Pardon for the interuption.

~Deejay AKA Crazy Calvinst AKA A Puritan at heart.

As the affections not only necessarily belong to the human nature, but are a very great part of it, so (inasmuch as by regeneration persons are renewed in the whole man) holy affections not only necessarily belong to true religion, but are a very great part of such religion. And as true religion is practical, and God hath so constituted the human nature, that the affections are very much the springs of men’s actions, this also shows, that true religion must consist very much in the affections. [Johnathan Edwards]

Worship comprehends all that respect which man oweth and giveth to his Maker.… It is the tribute which we pay to the King of Kings, whereby we acknowledge his sovereignty over us, and our dependence on him.… All that inward reverence and respect, and all that outward obedience and service to God, which the word [sc, godliness] enjoineth, is included in this one word worship. [George Swinnock]